Posts Tagged ‘bonds’

KISS With Bonds

Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The average 2024 Wall Street S&P 500 forecast is for a gain of 6.50% next year. In the past, a 6.50% expectation, while slightly lower than historical averages, was a no-brainer when choosing between stocks and sub-2.5% bonds. Today, that calculus has changed dramatically, with interest rates offering respectable […]

Big-Tech & Bitcoin Bid; Bonds, Bullion, & Biggest-Shorts Battered As Sentiment Slumps

Big-Tech & Bitcoin Bid; Bonds, Bullion, & Biggest-Shorts Battered As Sentiment Slumps It was a quiet week for macro data, but what there was ‘disappointed’ – higher continuing claims, worst deficit, slumping sentiment, and soaring inflation expectations… Source: Bloomberg But the ‘bad news’ sent investors fleeing into the ‘safe-haven’ arms of the Magnificent 7 once […]

Are Series EE Bonds Worth a Look?

By Lisa GerstnerFrom Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Since high inflation took hold in the United States, Series I savings bonds—which offer an inflation-linked interest rate—have enjoyed a moment in the sun. I bonds purchased from November 2022 through April 2023 offer a lofty composite yield of 6.89 percent. The Series EE savings bond is the demurer […]

Rothschild loan bonds to Tsarist Russia, long before the USSR

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IME to issue standard salaf bonds to support housing sector

TEHRAN – Iran Mercantile Exchange (IME) plans to presell housing units through standard salaf bonds in near future, the IME deputy for economic studies announced. “We will soon see the issuance of standard housing salaf bonds in the capital market to help financing in the housing sector and construction of new housing units in the […]

Catalonia Bonds Collapse As Police Warn Of Chaos If Referendum Canceled

While the Catalan people prepare to decide whether to break with Spain, the bond market appears to have already made its mind up as Catalonia bonds decouple from Spanish sovereign yields. Catalonia Bonds expiring next year have seen yields spike over 2% – the highest in over a year – and more than 230bps […]

The deep bonds of Palestinian-Puerto Rican solidarity were on display at this year’s NYC Puerto Rican Day Parade

This article is the first of a two-part story from Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi. The second article will be published on June 16, on Mondoweiss.  Part I: On June 11,  Palestinians joined thousands of Puerto Ricans and other activists and organizers in Indigenous, Black, and other communities of color/third world communities to affirm solidarity with the Puerto […]

Investors flee to gold, German bonds as political worries rise

Reuters– World stocks fell while safe-haven gold and German government bonds were in demand on Tuesday as tension in the Middle East, an election in Britain and upcoming testimony from the former head of the FBI pushed investors away from risky assets. European stocks fell early on Tuesday after leading Arab powers cut ties with […]

Brazilian Bloodbath: Currency Halted, Futures Crash, Bonds Tumble Most On Record

Already an impeachment request against Temer has been filed by the opposition, although it was unclear who would replace him or what the process would look like. If Temer resigns or is impeached, Congress would elect an interim president until the next scheduled vote in October of 2018. An early election could only be […]

Are U.S. Taxpayers Now on the Hook for Risky Wall Street Real Estate Backed Bonds?

Are U.S. Taxpayers Now on the Hook for Risky Wall Street Real Estate Backed Bonds? By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, Im fairly certain very few of you have heard of broker price opinions, or BPOs, but its something I think we should all become aware of given the influence of […]

Leader urges action on illegitimate salaries to preserve public trust

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on Wednesday renewed a call for serious and indiscriminate action on astronomical wages of some officials, warning that, otherwise, the issue could erode the public trust in the Establishment. In an address to a huge gathering of people after the Eid al-Fitr prayers […]

GCHQ intel used to develop Stuxnet, claims new documentary

The super worm known as Stuxnet was but a cog in an active US war program in which hundreds of thousands of network implants and backdoors in Iran networks were actively maintained to facilitate a devastating barrage of hacking attacks, a documentary claims. Zero Days, due to screen at the Berlin Film Festival […]

Flint water crisis: emails reveal governor Snyder informed of problems a year ago

Michigan governor Rick Snyder was informed of water quality issues in the city of Flint’s supply as early as February 2015, according to emails released to the public on Wednesday, but his administration struck a dismissive tone, saying the problems would eventually “fade in the rearview”. A background memo sent to the governor […]

Cherishing the British Empire and the Statue of Cecil Rhodes

Attitudes to imperialism vary with their ages.  In their first, and purest form, they assume it to be necessary, a burden (white was the dominant colour over the last two centuries) that takes the form of the “gift” of civilization.  Then, things cool off. Anti-imperial leagues develop.  Critiques come to the fore.  Running an empire […]

IMF Considers Buying Distressed Bonds Of Italy, Spain

  Daily Bail October 5, 2011 New threat from Europe using U.S. taxpayer cash. Pause to remember that U.S. taxpayers fund almost 20% of the IMF war chest, which could now be used to buy up the debt of weak Euozone members, a move that would end in massive losses as we enter 2012 and […]

EU Bonds Rollover Debt with a Chinese Bailout

“It is an open secret that numerous European banks would not survive having to revalue sovereign debt held on the banking book at market levels.”Deutsche Bank CEO Josef Ackerman   by Sartre Batr   The financial press is inundated with the most ominous reports of an EU meltdown. The downturn in economic activity and little […]

Stagflation signs surface in bonds, stocks, gold — The Buzz

Paul R. La Monica,CNN Aug 19, 2011 Is that a disco ball I see? Stocks plunged Thursday after several economic reports in the United States raised more worries about stagnant growth and higher inflation. I wish there was a word to describe such a scenario. Oh yeah. There is! Stagflation. Remember that old chestnut from […]

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